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advaya · Post by **advaya** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:49 pm

@ Pipeline: Certainly better... but what's with those plain looking scrollbars??? yuck!

Mutant · Post by **Mutant** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:54 pm

advaya wrote:@ Pipeline: Certainly better... but what's with those plain looking scrollbars??? yuck!

WHATTA ???
Better than what ?
Did you forget to add the appropriate winking emoticon ?

Pipelineaudio · Post by **Pipelineaudio** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:57 pm

Now, now, don't be jealous

alex zonder · Post by **alex zonder** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:58 pm

Bevoss wrote:Actually that Youn one gave me snowblindness after a while working with it, I think his old ipod theme was better on the eyes

I still think the YounSoft is a very fine design; there's something very tactile about it. And friendly

but yea for me as well it was too light I noticed after working a lot in it. Now I changed some colors, always returning to a Kind Of Blue

advaya · Post by **advaya** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:06 pm

Mutant wrote:
advaya wrote:@ Pipeline: Certainly better... but what's with those plain looking scrollbars??? yuck!
WHATTA ???
Better than what ?
Did you forget to add the appropriate winking emoticon ?

Didn't think it'd be necessary mate... but for you, an emoticon (or five) in retrospect of my grievous oversight:

advaya · Post by **advaya** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:08 pm

alex zonder wrote:always returning to a Kind Of Blue

pfffttt... wanabe Cubase fanboy!

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:32 pm

alex zonder wrote:and with a few clicks in the theme editor you got something for white space lovers... still fully functional

Just to be clear, "white space" is metaphorical, not literal.

Making elements white doesn't create "white space"! The non-white version of this screenshot was plenty "white space" enough to be rather un-cluttered in appearance.

Greg

alex zonder · Post by **alex zonder** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:17 pm

Lunch Money wrote:
alex zonder wrote:and with a few clicks in the theme editor you got something for white space lovers... still fully functional

Just to be clear, "white space" is metaphorical, not literal. Making elements white doesn't create "white space"! The non-white version of this screenshot was plenty "white space" enough to be rather un-cluttered in appearance.

Greg

yea Greg I know; after I added a phrase the wink came too late I guess

and white isn't a particularly attractive color on screen if you're staring at it for several hours. That's my problem with MS WORD; I don't like the two options (black on white / white on blue ), tried some alternatives with Windows' color settings but still did not find a writing screen that I actually like, whereas I spend many time in front of it - with unhappy eyes

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:49 pm

Off topic, but Alex, Office 2007 is a HUGE improvement over the older Office versions. You have plenty of options for page color, background, themes, and more. The interface is better too once you get used to it.

Highly recommended. I could never go back to Office 2000 or even Open Office.

Brent

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:00 pm

<still OT>

Office 2007 is indeed quite nice. But when you're used to WYSIWYG, it's hard to use anything except black on white anyhow. I'm trying to learn LaTeX, which would allow me to use eye-friendly code-writing tools. But yeah...

OpenOffice is more robust than Office2003/XP, so I'll stick to it until I can afford Office 2007, and then I'll switch up. MS really did do a good job with this one.

</OT>

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:21 pm

Well, the good thing about 2007 is that you can stick to the traditional look for the workspace. And I don't ever have a need to change page color or anything, as it's pretty standard.

But 2007 is LOADS better then Open Office and the earlier Microsoft Office versions.

Ok, sorry. I'm bored. Off topic again.

Brent

alex zonder · Post by **alex zonder** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:01 pm

Buying Office 2007, good as it sounds, mainly for colors is a bridge too far for me... but it's good to know that MS finally seems to take their word processor serious. I'll have a look at LyX as well... never heard of that before. OK, back on topic now!

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:06 pm

Well, if you think the only thing to change is the colors, you've probably not checked it out! Office 2007 is a COMPLETE overhaul of the program. No more menus, much better interface, and much more user friendly for almost everything. But if what you have works, then surely it's not a big deal.

Brent

alex zonder · Post by **alex zonder** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:22 pm

well in fact I only use WORD, and I simply use it to type, save, edit and print texts. So... I guess I could still use its very first version to accomplish that

But I'll check what the overhaul is all about - and see how seductive it is

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:02 am

LyX and other LaTeX editors are really only for people interested in the typesetting side of things, or who are happier working with markup than WYSIWYG. I really don't like LyX so far... but I like the end result of producing a TeX file. We'll see how it goes.

Office 2007 is certainly more compelling than just the different-coloured headers. The "ribbon" is truly a UI step forward, and it's intuitive to boot. A lot like Tracktion's "properties" panel.

It's the place to be. Unlike previous iterations of Office, the 2007 version actually makes the benefit of "styles" very clear even for a beginner. That's quite a feat. Most of Office's power comes from using style classes... any text editor can let you bold, center, and spell-check. But the approach to styles is awresome. OpenOffice, too, actually. In a lot of ways, OpenOffice's "styles" are more flexible and useful. And you can output .tex from OpenOffice, though I'm not knowledgable enough yet to check how compatible and full it is.

Greg

Reaper is not an ugly duckling anymore !